NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for subtle traces of ancient microbes, but one of its most ...

An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024, showing black "poppy seed" and larger "leopard spot" features. Researchers say a sample ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

An alien doorway on Mars, as captured by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (image courtesy NASA) Scientists and David Bowie have all famously wondered if there is ...

A new book details the turn-of-the-century Mars craze It’s not aliens. It’s never aliens. Claims of extraterrestrial life are so common that experts now have this cheeky retort at the ready. In The ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...